Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-10-21
FOREIGN.


according to recent estimates.
The ex-Empress Eugene uses an UNI
brella which costs two thousand dollars.
The handle is mass of splendid gems.
IN an election riot in Plevna, Bulgaria,
last Sunday, twentyfour persons were
killed and thirty wounded.
Snow STORMS, accompanied by thunder
and lightning, have prevailed in England
and Wales. Roads in Wales are blocked
with snow.
ACCORDING to official reports from Sim
la there were so, 78O fatal cases of cholera
in the northwest provinces during Au-
gust.
THE house in which DIR. Samuel John
son was born, at Litchtield, England, is
TO be sold October &c. If Boswell were
alive he would certainly buy it.
The Russian government officially con
tradicts the report that Grand Duke
Nicholas in a recent speech declared that
under certain circumstances he and 9th
er Russians would join the French army.
The Queen Regent of Spain has sign
ed decree authorizing the construction
of six iron clads of 1000 tons each, and
of four large and sixty small torpedo
boats.
JOHN NEvE, the anarchist who was sent
to prison at Halle, has been deprived of
all civil rights for ten years, in addition
to his term of fifteen years at hard labor,
and will be under police surveillance
all his life.
THE relations between Germany and
Russia are becoming more embittered.
10 mask is now worn on either side. The
press of st. Petersburg and Moscow Is
| now permitted to indulge in its natural
| disposition to abuse the Germans.
CARDINAL RAMPoLLA has issued a circu-
| lar to Nuncios abroad, asking the govern
| meLts to which they are accredited re
| garding the Pope's letter upon the nee
essity of temporal power fer the head of
the church. France, Spain, Belgium, and
| Austria have declined to express their
| opinion on the subject.
| THE duchess of Cumberland, daughter
| of the king of Denmark, who was pat in
| to an insane asylum at Vienna some
months ago, has completely recovered
| her reason, and will leave the Institution
| on Saturday.
| ENGLISH watchmakers who have been
| disheartened at the great inroads made
| in their business by the sale of cheap
| American watches, have formed q stock
| company with large capital for the
| purpose of making cheap timekeepers
in order TO drive the Americans out of
the market.
The council cf generals, which was sp-
! pointed for the purpose of trying Gener-
| al Caffarel on the charges preferred
I against him of selling civil decorations,
has pronounced the accused guilty of
| hsbitual dishouorable misconduct.
The Inspector General of Constables
has issued an order suspending the exc
| cution of the coroner's warrants for the
arrest of Inspectors Brown, Rigg, and
others sgainst whom a verdict of murder
was rendered at Mitchellstown, pending
an appeal to quash the finding of the
jury.
An investigation of the crooked trans
action of Caffarel, the French officer vhc
was dismissed for selling decorations
discloses the fact that many promiseni
Frenchmen were implicated with him
Among them were the popular idol. Bou
LANCER, and NJ. Wilson, a son-in-iaw oi
President Grevy.
THREE HUNDRED Russian subjects, IN
der Lyed Yakoob Ali, entered Hera. il
the guise of merchants. The governor
discovering the object of their visit
communicated with the Ameer, who or
dered the governor to refer to Mirahmes
Kahn, the Russian governor of Murghsb
whose reply is an1iously awaited Eiab
! crate military preparations are bein.
taken at Herat Trees are being re
moved and the canal and ditch are beins
Joined in one.
Mr. GLADSTONE, Earl Spencer, Morl..
and Lord Rosebery are at Hawarden
where they viii hold a conference wit
other Liberal leaders. Il is believed the
win consider an important pronuncis